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The power of trust is well known. And yet, when I am in a room with a team, examining ways to increase trust, most managers differ on their explanation of it. It is like love, you know when you have it, but difficult to describe. It is, in contrast, easier...

For more than three decades, I have been engaged on the frontline of performance execution and achievement – from global superstars to the person I see in the mirror daily. What I have found from the front-line business level to the executive room and from interviews and articles in my...

In order to determine the rankings, researchers at the CEOWORLD magazine compiled analyzed and compared 1250 medium-sized businesses in the United States. The companies should have at least 1,000 employees. Among others, employers should make sure all the workers enjoy the proper healthcare. Some companies did not only make it...

To win at e-commerce, business must stop the search for customers – that’s the wrong target. You don’t want customers. What you want are seekers. We can define “seeker” as a higher order outcome  - one that is deconstructed into a series of products or services. I then become a...

The pandemic has pushed banks to reapproach their marketing more than ever. In an effort to attract customers, banks have to take care of a large amount of small issues. The restrictions related to Covid-19 forced many stores to close and clients have to use digital services. This is a...

Toothless purpose is giving it all a bad name isn't it. All talk and no tangible action is the most pressing problem that business leaders face. The enormity of the actual challenges that we face as a planet, a civilization as a community requires a new kind of approach for business...

We are depleting our natural resources in an all-out-effort to enjoy our modern comforts. But our single-use throwaway culture isn’t sustainable. We need to find a solution. Can technology be the great enabler as we imagine and engineer the solutions to the planet’s challenges? To answer this question, we first...

Being a pet owner was not always normal. Animals in the past had a whole different role in humans' life. Families would keep animals in their backyard for a reason. Cows and goats were to provide us milk, meat, and clothing. Cats would be around so that they would ''clean''...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has named Aris Kekedjian to take the helm at his namesake investment firm, Icahn Enterprises LP (NASDAQ: IEP), according to the Wall Street Journal in an interview. Aris Kekedjian, who was the General Electric Company's chief investment officer until 2019, will take over as chief executive...